CNN Challenges Claim AI Will Eliminate Half of White-Collar Jobs, Calls It 'Part of the AI Hype Machine' (cnn.com)
(Saturday May 31, 2025 @11:34AM (EditorDavid)
from the war-of-the-talking-heads dept.)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/05/31/0439205/cnn-challenges-claim-ai-will-eliminate-half-of-white-collar-jobs-calls-it-part-of-the-ai-hype-machine
- Source link: https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/business/anthropic-amodei-ai-jobs-nightcap
Thursday Anthropic's CEO/cofounder Dario Amodei [1]again warned unemployed could spike 10 to 20% within the next five years as AI potentially eliminated half of all entry-level white-collar jobs.
But CNN's senior business writer dismisses that as " [2]all part of the AI hype machine ," pointing out that Amodei "didn't cite any research or evidence for that 50% estimate."
> And that was just one of many of the wild claims he made that are increasingly part of a Silicon Valley script: AI will fix everything, but first it has to ruin everything. Why? Just trust us.
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> In this as-yet fictional world, "cancer is cured, the economy grows at 10% a year, the budget is balanced — and 20% of people don't have jobs," Amodei [3]told Axios , repeating one of the industry's favorite unfalsifiable claims about a disease-free utopia on the horizon, courtesy of AI. But how will the US economy, in particular, grow so robustly when the jobless masses can't afford to buy anything? Amodei didn't say... Anyway. The point is, Amodei is a salesman, and it's in his interest to make his product appear inevitable and so powerful it's scary. Axios framed Amodei's economic prediction as a "white-collar bloodbath."
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> Even some AI optimists were put off by Amodei's stark characterization. "Someone needs to remind the CEO that at one point there were more than (2 million) secretaries. There were also separate employees to do in office dictation," wrote tech entrepreneur [4]Mark Cuban on Bluesky . "They were the original white collar displacements. New companies with new jobs will come from AI and increase TOTAL employment."
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> Little of what Amodei told Axios was new, but it was calibrated to sound just outrageous enough to draw attention to Anthropic's work, days after it released a major model update to its Claude chatbot, one of the top rivals to OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Amodei [5]told CNN Thursday this great societal change would be driven by how incredibly fast AI technology is getting better and better — and that the AI boom "is bigger and it's broader and it's moving faster than anything has before...!"
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/tech/ai-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-unemployment
[2] https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/business/anthropic-amodei-ai-jobs-nightcap
[3] https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic
[4] https://bsky.app/profile/mcuban.bsky.social
[5] https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/tech/ai-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-unemployment
But CNN's senior business writer dismisses that as " [2]all part of the AI hype machine ," pointing out that Amodei "didn't cite any research or evidence for that 50% estimate."
> And that was just one of many of the wild claims he made that are increasingly part of a Silicon Valley script: AI will fix everything, but first it has to ruin everything. Why? Just trust us.
>
> In this as-yet fictional world, "cancer is cured, the economy grows at 10% a year, the budget is balanced — and 20% of people don't have jobs," Amodei [3]told Axios , repeating one of the industry's favorite unfalsifiable claims about a disease-free utopia on the horizon, courtesy of AI. But how will the US economy, in particular, grow so robustly when the jobless masses can't afford to buy anything? Amodei didn't say... Anyway. The point is, Amodei is a salesman, and it's in his interest to make his product appear inevitable and so powerful it's scary. Axios framed Amodei's economic prediction as a "white-collar bloodbath."
>
> Even some AI optimists were put off by Amodei's stark characterization. "Someone needs to remind the CEO that at one point there were more than (2 million) secretaries. There were also separate employees to do in office dictation," wrote tech entrepreneur [4]Mark Cuban on Bluesky . "They were the original white collar displacements. New companies with new jobs will come from AI and increase TOTAL employment."
>
> Little of what Amodei told Axios was new, but it was calibrated to sound just outrageous enough to draw attention to Anthropic's work, days after it released a major model update to its Claude chatbot, one of the top rivals to OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Amodei [5]told CNN Thursday this great societal change would be driven by how incredibly fast AI technology is getting better and better — and that the AI boom "is bigger and it's broader and it's moving faster than anything has before...!"
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/tech/ai-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-unemployment
[2] https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/business/anthropic-amodei-ai-jobs-nightcap
[3] https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic
[4] https://bsky.app/profile/mcuban.bsky.social
[5] https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/tech/ai-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-unemployment
There will be zero unemployment; rosy AI future (Score:2)
by stabiesoft ( 733417 )
Anyone without a job will either freeze to death or suffer heatstroke because energy to heat/cool your abode will be unobtainable because the AI is sucking it all; your replacement.
Common Hucksters (Score:2)
That is like taking legal advice from the opposing counsel.